Goat Hill Pizza – a spectacular pizza joint in Portrero Hill that offers Neighborhood Night, all-you-can-eat pizza and salad for $10.95. They literally walk around with oodles of different types of pizza offering them to you until you fill up and waddle out.

Hang Ah Tea Room – If I were dying, I would opt to have my last meal here. I’ve been coming with my family since I was maybe 7 or 8 and it’s so deliciously wonderful dim sum that I still drool just thinking about it. They don’t do the typical dim sum walking around with trays thing anymore, but they keep the dim sum menu in tact with unrivaled pork buns and hum su gok. Swoon.

Saigon Sandwich – don’t let the Tenderloin location or suspciously cheap $4 sandwiches fool you – these are the best Vietnamese sandwhich evar. The constant line out the door is reassuring that it’s not all in my head and no one is getting sick from it. The hours are problematic though.

Steps of Rome – classic North Beach Italian, complete with authentically flirty Italian waiters and wobbly sidewalk seating (or was it just the wine?)

Cafe Claude – fancyish French, with live jazz. Good for special occasion or romantic stuff

Street – I think this is American. Food is a little overpriced and spare but yummy, and they have fun cocktails.

Ferry Building – for small nomables, or farmer’s market fare on the weekends

Samovar – the location right next to Yerba Buena Gardens is really beautiful for sitting outside on a nice day; nice for relaxing after combing the MOMA all day.

The Liberties – unassuming pub food in the Mission at the cusp of Noe Valley, where the more relaxed neighborhoody hipsters are. Also less that one block from The Lone Palm, one of the most chill hipster hideouts in the city.

Tartine – Mostly baked goods but they have sandwiches and stuff. Those tastey lunchy items that most bakeries have.